Violating Probation Lands Man In Prison

He Had Been Featured On Talk Shows After A Judge Told Him To Notify Sex Partners About His Hiv Infection.

October 27, 2000|By Frank Stanfield of The Sentinel Staff

TAVARES -- A man who once made the television talk-show circuit when he was ordered by a judge to warn sex partners that he had the HIV virus has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for violating probation on an unrelated weapons charge.

Jerrime Day, 22, of Apopka was sentenced to 180 days in jail and two years' probation last October on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

He pleaded no contest to the charge. He was accused of pulling a knife on his girlfriend and asking, "Do you love me?''

Earlier, an Orange County judge had ordered Day, a former stripper, to get a signed consent form from prospective sex partners after a 16-year-old girl complained that she had no warning he was infected with the virus that causes AIDS.

The court order, from County Judge Deb S. Blechman, led to appearances on the Geraldo Rivera and Montel Williams TV shows, where he talked about his fall from the sex industry to working on a chicken and pig farm in Lake County.

On Thursday, Circuit Judge T. Michael Johnson imposed the prison sentence on Day after probation officials said he tested positive for marijuana and cocaine.